This book explores how the Cold Wars ideological conflict was played out through competition over human rights values. As the West feared that the Soviet Union might win the Cold war, it shows how they sought to aggressively outf...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009456128)
From Dynamo Moscows postwar tour of Britain to the inaugural Womens World Cup, Cold War Football charts the clash between capitalism and communism through ten iconic matches. This is a fascinating and unique history of how the Cold War shaped foot...Loe edasi...
Sven Spieker, Polly Savage, Bojana Videkani, Christene dAnca
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487552961)
Curating Socialism takes a rare look into the world of international art exhibitions organized by socialist states between 1947-1989.The handbook examines the mechanisms, relationships, and international agreements that enabled...Loe edasi...
As groundbreaking as Code Girls and Hidden Figures, this is the shocking true story of two segregated codebreaking units racing to unlock Stalin’s atomic secrets in the face of a rapidly expanding Soviet nuclear threat at...Loe edasi...
Explores a Cold War concept of technology as a catastrophic influence on modern politics. In the mid-twentieth century, a certain idea of technology emerged in the work of many influential political theorists: a critical, catastrophic conc...Loe edasi...
On 16 July 1945, the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds. While the threat of mutually assured destruction kept a lid on a...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds du...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the now considerable interest in the concept of cultural cold war as a means of advancing ideologies. It will appeal to academics, postgraduate researchers, advanced undergraduates, and others interested in recent international h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008644833)
The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man Vasili Mitrokhin turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to th...Loe edasi...
Kawasaki, Sakade, Zimmerman, and their contributors examine the historical development of burden-sharing among the US and its allies after the Second World War, looking at examples from Western Europe and East Asia....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198917007)
Based on 8,000 newly declassified files, Fakers reveals the rise and fall of the mavericks running Britains Cold War forgery empire. Their secret mission was audacious: to disrupt and discredit adversaries across the world using phantom gro...Loe edasi...
First published in 1988, Science, Politics and the Cold War is a history of the cold-war era that demonstrates the extent to which science and scientists have been implicated in every aspect of the political process.The book discusse...Loe edasi...
Introducing Yugoslavia (1954) looks at the racial and historic chequer-board of 1950s Yugoslavia, providing a fascinating insight into the social and cultural aspects of a land that few Westerners visited at the time. Avoiding politics, it...Loe edasi...
In the early 1950s, Iranian oil became a firebomb of the Cold War in the Middle East, creating one of the eras two major hot spots alongside Korea. This book examines the events surrounding Mossadegh whose government unanimously passed legislatio...Loe edasi...
Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union?In this comprehensive guide to the most wid...Loe edasi...
A highly illustrated study of the T-72 main battle tank and variants, detailing its history from the Cold War Soviet Army though to the current War in Ukraine. A highly illustrated study of the T-72 main battle tank and variant...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421454016)
A compelling biography of John Foster Dulles, one of the most complex and underexamined architects of US foreign policy.John Foster Dulles is a towering yet misunderstood figure in American and international history. Best known as se...Loe edasi...
The politics of the Italian Republic reflected international Cold War bipolarism. This volume reconstructs the influence and the limits of the actions of the superpowers in relation to Italy, as well as the internal uses of the conflict by national a...Loe edasi...
1989 in the East revisits the processes that led to the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the USSR. This disintegration appeared to be the result of complex mobilisations where the repertoires of a...Loe edasi...
This book explores how, following the Algerian War, the Mediterranean emerged as a key battleground of the Cold War for France and will appeal to researchers, postgraduate students in history and international relations, professionals in internati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197761861)
Today, images of cartels, security agents donning face coverings, graphs depicting egregious murder rates, and military guards at US border crossings influence the worlds perception of Mexico. Mexicos so-called drug war, as generally conceived by j...Loe edasi...
“A fleet-footed and propulsive account . . . Brilliantly sifting a massive history for its ideological through lines, this is a must-read. — Publishers Weekly (starred review)The author of...Loe edasi...
Residential Housing and Nuclear Attack (1984) considers the likely effects of a nuclear attack and examines the effectiveness of proposed civil defence measures. It looks in particular at the degree of protection residential housing is like...Loe edasi...
Containing Latin America provides a fresh interpretive history of the making and remaking of Latin America and the US from the Long Cold War to the Global Cold War (1910–1991), exploring how geopolitics created enduring patterns in inter-Am...Loe edasi...
Containing Latin America provides a fresh interpretive history of the making and remaking of Latin America and the US from the Long Cold War to the Global Cold War (1910–1991), exploring how geopolitics created enduring patterns in inter-Am...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231215886)
This groundbreaking book tells the story of how a transatlantic pro-apartheid movement attempted to defend white rule in South Africaand forged enduring links between global conservatism and white power....Loe edasi...
This book explores how the Cold Wars ideological conflict was played out through competition over human rights values. As the West feared that the Soviet Union might win the Cold war, it shows how they sought to aggressively outf...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009456128)
From Dynamo Moscows postwar tour of Britain to the inaugural Womens World Cup, Cold War Football charts the clash between capitalism and communism through ten iconic matches. This is a fascinating and unique history of how the Cold War shaped foot...Loe edasi...
One of the most sensational episodes of the Cold War - Sunday Times Drawing on newly declassified intelligence documents and dozens of interviews with spymasters, The Defector tells a startling story of a Soviet mission to plant fake Kre...Loe edasi...
Sven Spieker, Polly Savage, Bojana Videkani, Christene dAnca
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487552961)
Curating Socialism takes a rare look into the world of international art exhibitions organized by socialist states between 1947-1989.The handbook examines the mechanisms, relationships, and international agreements that enabled...Loe edasi...
As groundbreaking as Code Girls and Hidden Figures, this is the shocking true story of two segregated codebreaking units racing to unlock Stalin’s atomic secrets in the face of a rapidly expanding Soviet nuclear threat at...Loe edasi...
Explores a Cold War concept of technology as a catastrophic influence on modern politics. In the mid-twentieth century, a certain idea of technology emerged in the work of many influential political theorists: a critical, catastrophic conc...Loe edasi...
Many who lived during the Cold War asked the question of the V-force nuclear deterrent: ‘If the balloon had gone up, would it have got through?’ This book, written by an Air Electronics Officer with some 4,500 flying hours in Avro Vulcans, sets out t...Loe edasi...
On 16 July 1945, the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds. While the threat of mutually assured destruction kept a lid on a...Loe edasi...
The riveting story of the ring of spies known as the Cambridge Five, who infiltrated the highest levels of the British establishment and helped Stalin cement a half century of Soviet domination over Eastern Europe The Cambridge Five w...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds du...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the now considerable interest in the concept of cultural cold war as a means of advancing ideologies. It will appeal to academics, postgraduate researchers, advanced undergraduates, and others interested in recent international h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008644833)
The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man Vasili Mitrokhin turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to th...Loe edasi...
Kawasaki, Sakade, Zimmerman, and their contributors examine the historical development of burden-sharing among the US and its allies after the Second World War, looking at examples from Western Europe and East Asia....Loe edasi...
Sari: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299356101)
Between 1946 and 1948, roughly 5,000 ethnic Italians from the northern Adriatic shipbuilding town of Monfalcone relocated to the newly communist Yugoslavia. This rare case of eastward Cold War migration demonstrates how ordinary people conceived of l...Loe edasi...
The conquest of the stratosphere was one of the most dramatic and ambitious goals of early twentieth-century aviation. While Western efforts to push ever higher into the thin air above 10,000 metres are relatively well known, Soviet projects in this...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501786990)
Playing the Game uncovers the history of state and regional colleges as engines of opportunity in postwar America. By 1970, these institutions enrolled more students than elite private or flagship public universities did, and yet they remained on th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198917007)
Based on 8,000 newly declassified files, Fakers reveals the rise and fall of the mavericks running Britains Cold War forgery empire. Their secret mission was audacious: to disrupt and discredit adversaries across the world using phantom gro...Loe edasi...
First published in 1988, Science, Politics and the Cold War is a history of the cold-war era that demonstrates the extent to which science and scientists have been implicated in every aspect of the political process.The book discusse...Loe edasi...
Introducing Yugoslavia (1954) looks at the racial and historic chequer-board of 1950s Yugoslavia, providing a fascinating insight into the social and cultural aspects of a land that few Westerners visited at the time. Avoiding politics, it...Loe edasi...
From Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature: a devastating human history of the Chernobyl reactor disaster, now in an emotive new translation.First there is the voice of the firefighter’s wife, w...Loe edasi...
In the early 1950s, Iranian oil became a firebomb of the Cold War in the Middle East, creating one of the eras two major hot spots alongside Korea. This book examines the events surrounding Mossadegh whose government unanimously passed legislatio...Loe edasi...
Sari: Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625349484)
A gripping history of FBI surveillance, political repression, and the fight for Puerto Rican independence In the 1940s, with the construction of a naval base and a bombing range, Puerto Rico became a major geo-political military outp...Loe edasi...
Sari: Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625349491)
A gripping history of FBI surveillance, political repression, and the fight for Puerto Rican independence In the 1940s, with the construction of a naval base and a bombing range, Puerto Rico became a major geo-political military outp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855806687)
Brings Connecticut suffragist and socialist Emily Pierson out of the shadows, exploring her role in the social and political movements that shook America from the 1910s to the Cold War. At once the story of a largely forgotten local fireb...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: America Through Time, ISBN-13: 9781634996129)
The isolated Aleutian Islands became stepping stones to the United States for the Japanese military during World War II. Their thrust was terminated by bitter battles in 1943, but in the late 1950s, another threat emerged—the Cold War. The is...Loe edasi...
This book examines the transformation of Eurasianist historiographic and historiosophic concepts within the Soviet post-Stalinist intellectual milieu. By researching the most understated phase in the development of Eurasianism betw...Loe edasi...
Exploring the life of one of Central Americas understudied political figures, this exciting new volume follows Manuel Colom Arguetas exploits, philosophy, and impact amid the background of the Central American Cold War. Exploring the...Loe edasi...
Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union?In this comprehensive guide to the most wid...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700641352)
Cultural scholar John Wills takes readers on a cultural tour of Doom Town, USA, designed to be the model 1950s American city and destroyed by an atomic bomb on live television to educate Americans on the need to prepare for possible nuclear war...Loe edasi...
A highly illustrated study of the T-72 main battle tank and variants, detailing its history from the Cold War Soviet Army though to the current War in Ukraine. A highly illustrated study of the T-72 main battle tank and variant...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421454016)
A compelling biography of John Foster Dulles, one of the most complex and underexamined architects of US foreign policy.John Foster Dulles is a towering yet misunderstood figure in American and international history. Best known as se...Loe edasi...
The politics of the Italian Republic reflected international Cold War bipolarism. This volume reconstructs the influence and the limits of the actions of the superpowers in relation to Italy, as well as the internal uses of the conflict by national a...Loe edasi...
This book tells the story of the secret operations on nuclear espionage operations carried out from Argentina by the US Air Force between 1946 and 1974 with the aim of identifying the countrys uranium deposits and the development of the Argentine nu...Loe edasi...
1989 in the East revisits the processes that led to the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the USSR. This disintegration appeared to be the result of complex mobilisations where the repertoires of a...Loe edasi...
This book explores how, following the Algerian War, the Mediterranean emerged as a key battleground of the Cold War for France and will appeal to researchers, postgraduate students in history and international relations, professionals in internati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197761861)
Today, images of cartels, security agents donning face coverings, graphs depicting egregious murder rates, and military guards at US border crossings influence the worlds perception of Mexico. Mexicos so-called drug war, as generally conceived by j...Loe edasi...
“A fleet-footed and propulsive account . . . Brilliantly sifting a massive history for its ideological through lines, this is a must-read. — Publishers Weekly (starred review)The author of...Loe edasi...
Residential Housing and Nuclear Attack (1984) considers the likely effects of a nuclear attack and examines the effectiveness of proposed civil defence measures. It looks in particular at the degree of protection residential housing is like...Loe edasi...
